Rachel Carson Turns 100
May 18th, 2007 : posted by SandraTrained as a zoologist, Rachel Carson began her career as a contract government science writer at a time when… “wildlife agencies still handed out recipes for the animals they were studying.†(An Environmental Icon’s Unseen Fortitude, Washington Post 5.18.07) She is best known for her still controversial book Silent Spring and its crusade against the widespread use of DDT, but her legacy extends well beyond that. She is widely acknowledged to have been the inspiration for the environmental movement, with the creation of the EPA being only one of the results. “The earth itself needs an advocate,†she said. If she were still alive, I wonder what she would be advocating? What do you think? She was apparently incapable of remaining silent. Would that the same were true for the rest of us.
November 12th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
In our Time, Carson would observe that the ecological sciences are hell bent on studying Earth-life to death; rather than on finding the ultimate source of this destruction. From there, she might, or might not, have the vision to see outside the box of Modern Science, to see that it is reactive in nature. And to see that it is incapable of reversing these destructivities due to the nature of the Modern Science-technology marriage, and its purchase and control by global, corporate, commerial empires.
She might experience the revelation that the ultimate source of Earth-life’s destruction, including oppression and destruction of human life, lies within the human mind and spirit. She or some influential Ecoleader would then call for the reconstitution of Modern human development, for a renatualization of developing infants and children, a restoration of the primordial bond, and the intimate relationship, of humans with Living Nature.
Such repurified, renurturalized, renaturalized young people would be incapable of participating, or tolerating, actions that destroy two essences of their very nature as natural human beings: (a) the living things around them, and (b) the natural family-community psycho-social-spiritual nurturings, the human nurturome, of evolved humanity. The rediscovery of these evolved nongenetic instructions, which, in evolved human nurture-culture, receive the human genome, is the ultimate solution. These inextricably interact with DNA to orchestrate biological(genome) blueprints with nonbiological(nurturome) blueprints toward development and reproduction of natural, whole human beings.
This would be the greatest human revolution since the emergence of civilization, and the only one that can save us from our fall out of our evolved human nature, spirit, being, consciousness, and culture.